A yogurt from Georgia (in Asia, not America) has been spreading throughout Japan by being passed from person-to-person.
A sample of Caspian yogurt, as it’s being called, was brought back from Georgia in 1986 by a Japanese scholar studying longevity.
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There is no commercial version of the product, which has spread thanks to friends and neighbors sharing samples.
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What have been the developments to Caspian Yogurt since this information was pubilshed?
I hadn’t heard anything about Caspian yogurt in Japan since I first read about it last January. Then, just last week, someone gave a friend of mine a sample. So I’m going to try to make a batch this weekend.
I briefly considered bringing a sample back to the States with me, but then realized customs might not be too happy with a small, unmarked jar filled with a white, gooey, substance.
For more information, I would suggest doing a search on google.com for “caspian yogurt japan.
Help! I had a sample of Caspian yogurt culture which I brought to AMerica last year. I made yogurt and passed some along to my friends. This year when I was out of town for 3 weeks, my yogurt sample spoiled and I can’t make my yogurt. Worse, my friends to whom I gave samples quit making the yogurt. I live in the San Francisco Bay area. Is there anybody out there with a sample they could send me?
I learned about the yogrut in Belgium. My sister lives in Belgium and her friend gave us some sample. It seems that it is not only Japan the yogurt is popular among Japanese people. I just found out one of my students whose mother is Japanese also keeps it too and she belives that the yogurt will give us long life…